Cabinet.



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S. 0. PRICE.

CABINET.

APPLICATION rILsn mac 12, 1901.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

16 MODEL.

WITNESSES! ATTORNEYS Patented June 2, 1903.

F PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHENC. PRICE, or PITTSBURG, KAN'S-AS.

CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 730,046, dated June-2,1903.

"Application filed December 12, 1901. Serial No- 85,588- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LSTEPHEN O. PRIoE,a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Pittsburg, in the county of Crawford and State of Kansas,have invented a new and Improved Cabinet, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description. f

The purpose of this invention is to provide a cabinet or system ofshelves designed especially for use in stores and other places wheregoods are kept for display; and the invention comprises a certain novelconstruction which enables me to utilize the entire space along the wallfrom the floorto'the' ceiling without involving the necessity of using astep-ladder or other means for climbing up to points near the ceiling.This end I attain by-a peculiar arrangement of balanced cases arrangedin pairs, one to move up as the other moves down, and thus while theymay be placed one higher than the other for purposes of display when itis desired to remove the goods either of the casesmay be lowered into aposition convenient for a person standing on the floor.

This specificationis a specific description of one form of theinvention, while the claim are definitions of the actualscope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyin g drawings, forming a part ofthisspecification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectionalplan view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation withparts broken away and in section. Fig. 4 is a detail section showing thelock for holding the cases in the desired position, and Fig. 5 is adetail view showing the rollers for mounting the cases.

The base or lower portion of the cabinet is preferably in the form of aclosed case a, with drawersa',in which goods maybe placed, the top ofthis case providing a shelf at its front portion. (See the point a inFig. 3.) On the base or case a is arranged the framing and the connectedshelf-cases forming the subject-matter of my invention. This framingcomprises a top I), with four corner-posts 1), these corner-posts beingof right-angle cross-sectional form, as best shown in Fig. 5. At eachside of this frame is a vertically-extending T-rail b these T'-rails'lying midway side .to the other of the framing.

between the front and rear corner railsor posts I). The postsor rails 12and b are'suitably fastened to the baseportion 0.. Reference. to Fig. 2will show that by the arrangement of the posts or nails 1) and 1) twoverti'calguideways are produced, these guideways being located one infront of .the other and each extendingcontinuously from one In each ofthe guideways thus formed is arranged one shelf-case. "These casescomprise side walls 0, with shelves 0 arranged horizontally therein, thecompartmentsformed by these shelves being open, at their front, and-atthe rear a screenor other like wall 0 'is arranged to prevent the goodsfrom falling over the rear edges-of the shelves. These cases are of aheight equal to or slightly less than one-half of the vertical extent ofthe frame forming the guide'ways (See Fig. 3.) The shelf-cases areconnected togetherbytworopes or cords (1, arranged one at each side,these ropes or jcords passing up over guide-sheaves d in the top I), asshown in Fig. 3. -.The shelf-cases .thus balance each other and may bemoved freely up or down, one case moving up as the other moves down, andvice versa. In order to reduce the friction attending the movement ofthe shelf-cases, Iprovide rollers 0 these rollers being set into thewalls of the cases, as shown in Fig. 5, and running against the innersides of the guide rails or posts I) and b "j j As shown best in Figs. 1and 4, I provide a thumb-latch 6, preferably in the form of a cam. Thisthumb-latch is arrcnged in the corner post or rail 12'' at theright-hand side of the cabinet and works through a slot therein, so asto engage the corresponding side edge of the front shelf-cases. When thecatch 6 is thrown into operation, this case is locked rigidly in placeat any elevation desired, and of course the other end is held frommovement.

Now it will be observed that by the arrangement shown cases may'be"placed in the adand thus any of the shelves may be brought to alower position, so that a person standing on the floor may readily placearticles on and remove them from the shelf referred to. This materiallyadds to the capacity of the store, especially in buildin where theceilings are relatively high, and it avoids the necessity of employingstep-ladders and other means for raising ones self from the floor.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resortedto at will without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence Iconsider myself entitled to all forms of the invention as may lie withinthe intent of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters 1 ate nt- A cabinet, comprising a base, corner-posts risingtherefrom, said posts having essential] y L-shaped cross-sectional formand said posts forming a frame, a T-rail located ateach' side of saidframe, the T-rails extending \'ertically and forming in the frame twovertically-disposed spaces, a shelf-case arranged to move verticallyineach of said spaces, the shelf -cascs having their corners runningagainst the T-rails and corner-posts, said corners of the shelf-casesbeing inclosed by said posts, guide-rollers attached to the shelf-casesand running against the corner-posts and T-rails, a flexible connection,the ends of which are attached to the she1f-cases, and guide devices atthe top of the frame, over which guide devices said flexible connectionIn testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence 01: two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN (3. PRICE.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. CAMPBELL, A. II. GREEF.

